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A short while ago, we used the monolith web application: huge codebases that grew in new functions and features until they turned into huge, slow-moving, hard to manage giants. Now, an increasing number of developers, architects, and DevOps experts are coming to the opinion that it is better to use microservices than a giant monolith. Usually, using a microservices-based architecture means splitting your monolith into at least two applications: the front-end app and a back-end app (the API). After the decision to use microservices, a question arises: In what environment is it better to run microservices? What should I choose to make my service stable as well as easy to manage and deploy? The short answer is: Use Docker!

In this article, I’ll be introducing you to containers, explaining Kubernetes, and teaching you how to containerize and deploy an app to a Kubernetes cluster using CircleCI.

Docker? What is Docker?

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